As you know by now, new Phoenix Suns owner Mat Ishbia wasted no time in starting the purge to build the Suns in his vision. First, he acquired a new best player in Suns history. And now, he severed ties with the head coach who’d won Coach of the Year just last season and cobbled together the 4th best seed in the West despite myriad injuries and upheavals throughout the season.
Yet, it’s the playoff endings that did him in. Back-to-back embarrassing 30-point deficits at halftime on your home court in an elimination game — even one of those was record-setting and now there’s two — will get you fired no matter what else you’ve done.